Quick Bio

Rootstock Racing Team Members

Abby Perkiss (Captain)

Brent Freedland

Brian Reiss

Joel Ford

Race team details

Goals for the race

As with any race we do, our primary goal is to get to the starting line fit, healthy, and ready to race hard and finish the full course.

Previous Untamed New England Highlights

Members of the team have competed in the 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2013 editions of Untamed New England. We have several all-time "highlights reel" AR moments from these events, including the middle-of-the night lake crossings under starry skies, epic traverses in the mountains of New England, and especially the misty dawn Dead River packraft in 2012, when we came around a bend and watched a doe save her fawn from a Canadian lynx attack. We can't wait to see what 2018 has in store!

Team Inspiration

As a team, we subscribe to the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of each individual part. Our strength lies in our ability to problem solve, endure in tough conditions, and work together as a unit.